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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!

Franz Grillparzer

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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
Robespierre
Pedant
Pedants
Pedantry
Freedom

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Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
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Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.
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The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.
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